ON THE WEST COAST
MEN AT WORK AT SEDDONVILLE. Press Association. WESTPORT, December 23. Delegates from the coal miners’ unions on the Coast aro still sitting in conference considering matters in relation to resuming work. No decision was announced up to noon. The Union Company intimated to the miners’ representatives:—“We are going to protect ourselves with regard to coal. Arrangements are now in train whereby we can immediately closo an order for sufficient to keep us going tor some months.” Thirty men at the Seddonville State mine commenced work this morning loading slack into trucks to supply a Union Company order. Three shifts will be worked. It is understood that the men are ready to enter the mines when the whistle blows. The Westport Coal Company has posted notices at its mii.es inviting applications for employment under the Arbitration Act. In all probability the last of the special mounted constables from the country will have reached his home again by to-morrow. Only about 100 men were left in town yesterday of tho 1000 at one time in cama
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8612, 24 December 1913, Page 5
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